Henry Rollins Quotes
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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Each material is only what we make it.
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It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.
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All things in moderation, including moderation.
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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
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We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
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Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.
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History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
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You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.
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I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
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Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
